Job#: 3057934 Job Description: Performance Engineer
Location: MUST BE LOCAL TO AUSTIN, TX
Onsite requirements: FULLY REMOTE *must be living within 25 miles of Austin, TX*
Pay rate: $75/hr W2
Contract length: 12-24 month contract
Role Overview
This opportunity involves contributing to the speed, scalability, reliability, and overall experience of digital platforms. The position combines performance testing, frontend auditing, observability, and hands-on engineering to identify bottlenecks and drive measurable improvements across applications and infrastructure. Collaboration with application, UX, API, platform, and engineering teams is required to build performance into delivery workflows from local development through production monitoring.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan and execute performance testing for web applications, APIs, and critical user journeys using tools such as JMeter and LoadRunner.
- Design workload models and test scenarios for baseline, load, stress, endurance, and capacity testing.
- Analyze results, traces, logs, and network waterfalls to identify frontend, backend, infrastructure, and dependency bottlenecks.
- Conduct frontend performance audits using tools such as Lighthouse, WebPageTest, Chrome DevTools, and real-user monitoring platforms.
- Evaluate Core Web Vitals and related metrics, including LCP, INP, CLS, FCP, and TTFB, and recommend actionable improvements.
- Build and maintain performance dashboards, service-level indicators, and actionable alerts using observability platforms.
- Configure and improve synthetic monitoring and real-user monitoring for key pages and user journeys.
- Assess CDN and edge performance, including configuration, caching policies, cache headers, compression, and content delivery behavior.
- Validate cache behavior across public and authenticated experiences, including HIT, MISS, STALE, and bypass scenarios.
- Develop scripts, utilities, and automation for repeatable performance tests, audits, reporting, and regression detection.
- Integrate performance checks into CI/CD pipelines and help establish performance budgets and release criteria.
- Work hands-on with application teams to implement and verify performance improvements, including frontend and API changes.
- Review architecture and design proposals for scalability, resilience, caching, and performance risks.
Required Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience: 5 or more years of experience in performance engineering, performance testing, or software engineering.
Technical Skills: Strong experience designing, running, and analyzing load and performance tests with JMeter, LoadRunner, or comparable tools. Experience with frontend performance testing, browser diagnostics, and building performance dashboards is required. Working knowledge of web application architecture, HTTP, APIs, browsers, and distributed systems is essential.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with observability platforms such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic, or Grafana.
- Experience with Lighthouse CI, WebPageTest, SpeedCurve, mPulse, or similar frontend performance tools.
- Experience with synthetic monitoring and real-user monitoring (RUM).
- Familiarity with React, Next.js, server-side rendering, and edge-rendering strategies.
- Experience with cloud platforms, containers, and Docker.
- Experience integrating performance tests into CI/CD pipelines.
Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
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